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Archive for July, 2008

Top 100 Blogs

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Check out Technorati’s list of the top 100 blogs. It’s a pretty diverse bunch. The list includes everything from A List Apart (I visit this one for website code.), TreeHugger (The name says it all.) and Apartment Therapy (Better Homes and Gardens eat your heart out!).

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Randy Pausch

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Randy Pausch died today. Randy had cancer and was given less than a year to live when he gave what came to be known as his last lecture. I hadn’t taken the time to listen to it until today. It’s just as inspirational as I’d heard. What I wasn’t prepared for was how laugh-out-loud funny [...]

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The Pocket-Sized Guide to Blogging

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The Pocket-Sized Guide to Blogging is a quick how-to guide for bloggers by Skelliewag.  It’s short and sweet with lots of good information. I was interested in the points under the “How to Get More Subscribers” subsection. I don’t entirely agree with his second point: The notion that subscribers unsubscribe if you post too little [...]

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WordPress 2.6

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The folks at WordPress have been busy. Check out this video to learn about the latest features that they’ve added to the most recent version of WordPress:

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E-mail Etiquette

Monday, July 14th, 2008

ABC News wrote a great article on E-mail Etiquette the other day. One of the worst e-mail mistakes I’ve ever seen was when a co-worker complained about the company we worked at to another co-worker. He gave his honest opinion about one of upper management’s recent decisions. It wasn’t complimentary. It named names. It was [...]

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Customer Spotlight – Karen Burns

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I’ve had Karen Burns, Working Girl, on my list of recommended blogs for ages. I’m very pleased to report that U.S. News and World Reports agrees with me. They’re featuring Karen as a weekly blogger in their On Careers – Outside Voices section. Don’t forget who recommended her first!

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WordPress 2.5 – The Kitchen Sink

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Previously I’ve written about the super-secret second toolbar in WordPress.  WordPress 2.5 replaces that with the “kitchen sink.” The second toolbar is displayed if you click on the kitchen sink.  To hide it again just click on the kitchen sink again.

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Happy Fourth of July!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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